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Chief of the NASA Balloon Programme Office (BPO). She is responsible for management of the NASA Scientific Balloon Programme Office, and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility located in Palestine, Texas.

She is an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has received several NASA awards for her ballooning activities.

Research fellow at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science in the Clinical Cardiovascular Engineering Team at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. His research employs experimental and computational techniques and 3D printing technology to model cardiovascular diseases and devices and to study the function and performance of the heart. He Investigates devices, such as catheter balloons, used during cardiovascular procedures including angioplasty and examines how these devices work under realistic working conditions using computer modelling.

You can see one of his simulated images in the gallery on the right-hand side of this page.

Professor of English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford, where she studies English, Irish and Scottish Romantic poetry and literature. Her current interests include research into William Wordsworth’s Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey in the UK, the literary significance of rivers, the difference between landscape and place, and the links and contrasts between English, Irish and Scottish literature.

Whilst researching an early romantic literature project, Fiona came across many references to balloons and became fascinated by the ‘balloonomania’ raging across France and Britain that was reflected in the literature and poetry of the time.